« Why Was It Raining Mud? | Main | Second Life: most over-hyped trend? » Twitter, color wars, viruses Mashable asks which team it should back in the Twitter color wars. If you're not a Twitter user you wouldn't get this... in fact, even if you are a Twitter user, you might not get the game. At that point, I was going to say something about being too busy to play the game, but your logical response would then be If you're so busy, how do you find time to blog about it? Actually, I wasn't going to blog about the game per se, but Mashable refers to this year SXSW bug, a nasty rhinovirus that struck many attendees as they were leaving Austin. I was already down, and missed most of the conference because I was flat on my back in bed, so desperate that I actually visited a doctor (something I avoid) on a Saturday (even more unlikely) and got antibiotics plus a B12 shot in the bum - which seemed to help more than anything, so that I could make our spectacular Plutopia event Monday night, and my sessions on Tuesday. But what I'm really getting at is that this year's SXSW bug emulated last year's SXSW Twitter explosion. Twitter adoption spread in 2007 just like the virus from hell spread in 2008. Everybody was infected. Aside from congestion, fever, and chills, the virus also caused a mind-numbing depression... pretty much the opposite of the manic tweeting we associated with Twitter. I posted a SXSW photo set at Flickr. Most of my photos were from the Plutopia event. The photo above is from Maggie Duval's "Lance Van De Kamp Show," which was part of the festivities. Here guest was Johannes Grenzfurthner of Monochrom, appearing as Comisar Chrusov of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf. jon posted this at 7:56 AM |
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